After work I took the courtesy shuttle into Reading to meet up with Arachne, who happened to be there at after-school o'clock.
We wandered about a bit, I showed her the parts I had discovered last week and then we went exploring together in search of charm.
We found this unlikely hotel tucked round the back of something. No, the Dickens Bar & Brasserie isn't currently a thing, but round the side they had an all vegetarian Indian street-food place with some tempting concoctions we'd never heard of and which had to be tried.
I don't know how to describe the food. It was tasty, it included curious combinations of biscuits, yoghurt, potato, bread, beans, chickpeas and noodles. Yes I would eat there again.